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Ainge, N. |
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Report on the pilot implementation of the clinical career pathway for nurses ( CAHB) |
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1993 |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Mary Lambie Collection Canterbury Medical Library |
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| Abstract |
During 1992, two hundred Registered Nurses ( RN's) participated in the Pilot Implementation of the Clinical Career Pathway for Nurses. This was conducted according to terms for the Proposal (Shepherd et al 1991) prepared by Nurses throughout the Canterbury Area Health Board.Ten services had a participating ward/ unit. All were volunteers. The framework for a Clinical Career Pathway (CAHB) has six steps. During 1992 attention was focused on the two levels beyond basic functional competency. Nurse Practitioner II, Nurse Specialist. An open system was piloted. There was no change to remuneration. Advancement was- self initiated; by peer review ( the RN was required to meet the performance criteria set by the Unit Nurse Managers.) There was no constraint to numbers advancing. Forty seven RN's advanced to Nurse practitioner II level,nine advanced to Nurse Specialist level.Evaluation covered four areas-1. Qualitative benefits and initiatives to improves patient care. 2. Nurses perception of the project. 3. Benefits of peer review. 4. Secondary gains |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 93 |
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93 |
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| Author |
Rogers, Luenda |
| Title |
Report on Margaret May Blackwell Travel Study undertaken March/April 1997 [Management of babies born to mothers with dependencies -- drug and alcohol; Health care of young children whose families are homeless] |
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Report |
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1997 |
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79p. |
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Infants; Drug dependency; Alcohol dependency; Homelessness; Child health services; Reports |
| Abstract |
As the recipient of the Margaret May Blackwell Travel Fellowship two topics were studied: management of babies born to mothers with drug and alcohol dependencies, and the health-care of young children whose families are homeless. Part of the Margaret May Blackwell Scholarship Reports series. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1411 |
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| Author |
Taylor, K. |
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Report of a survey undertaken to determine factors that may affect the registered nurses' desire to participate in continuing education |
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1987 |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Inservice Educaton Department, Middlemore Hospital |
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Nurses at a New Zealand Metropolitan Hospital were surveyed to determine whether the following factors affected their desire to participate in continuing education. Age, Family responsibilities, reading of Journals/Health literature related to Nursing, attendance of in service/staff development programs, careers aims and intended number of years to remain in Nursing. 30 Nurses were requested to participate in the research project. They were either registered General and Obstetric Nurses or Registered Comprehensive Nurses and 15 worked full time while 15 worked part time. Null hypotheses were formulated and tested because it is recognised that Nurses have a professional responsibility to maintain their knowledge and expertise and to do this in a Health Care system and society that is continually changing there must be a commitment to life long continuing education. Therefore , I thought it would be of interest to determine whether certain factors influenced Nurses' desire to participate in continuing education. With the factors of Age, Family responsibilities, hours of work, number of years registered reading of Journals/Health literature related to Nursing, and intended number of years to remain in Nursing there was no significant difference (p> 0.10) in the desire to participate in continuing education, as was Nurses basic qualification (p< 0.05) With the factor of attendance of in service/ Staff development programs there doesn't appear to be any significant difference and with career plans the sample expected frequencies were too small for statistical analysis |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 92 |
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92 |
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| Author |
O'Reilly, A.F. |
| Title |
Relinquishing personhood in dementia: Discordant discourses: A nurse's inquiry |
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2002 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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| Keywords |
Dementia; Nursing; Nurse-patient relations; Relationships |
| Abstract |
This thesis traces the journey of the author's inquiry into family members' experience of the relinquishment of the personhood of a loved one with a dementia; a journey in which she reports that her own prior understandings were significantly challenged. The study was prompted by her experience of working in the area of dementia care and hearing, in the course of the working day, comments such as 'there's nobody there' made in relation to someone suffering from severe dementia. Such comments appear to imply that the person of the dementia sufferer in some way is no longer present. They are comments which relate to the very nature of personhood. The study takes impetus from the fact that the ways in which nurses view the personhood of dementia sufferers has significant consequences for the ways in which they respond to dementia sufferers and their families. This thesis, which retells the stories of four family members who each have a loved one with a dementia illness, reveals that rather than there being a unified concept of personhood in dementia, and in spite of the fact that particular understandings of dementia and personhood dominate our cultural conversations, in their day to day lives these four family members managed and made sense of their experience through particular and different ways of looking at the impact dementia has on the personhood of dementia sufferers. Not all did, in fact, relinquish the personhood of their family member. In their lived lives, the four research participants had recourse, each in different ways, to multiple discourses of personhood. For some, in addition to loss, there was also unexpected gain. This finding necessitated and shaped further inquiry into discourse and the role of discourse in shaping, constraining and opening up possibilities for meaning, and into the two substantive areas of dementia and personhood. Nurses work closely alongside the family of dementia sufferers who are daily faced with the challenge of managing and making meaning of that situation. It is critically important that they are able to recognise, validate and support the variety of needs that family members have. Nurses, whose education is traditionally based on a biomedical framework, are nevertheless often required to mediate between different understandings. Not only do they need currency of knowledge in the rapidly changing biomedical field of dementia, but they need also an understanding of the role and the power of discursive constructions of both dementia and personhood. Such understanding will provide insight into alternate ways of understanding these concepts. However, although such understanding is critical for nurses working in this area, the author suggests that nursing literature has not brought these discussions to the fore. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 792 |
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776 |
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| Author |
Ryder-Lewis, M. |
| Title |
Reliability study of the Sedation-Agitation Scale in an intensive care unit |
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2004 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
ResearchArchive@Victoria |
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| Keywords |
Intensive care nursing; Interprofessional relations |
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This study is an extension of a previous study by Riker, Picard and Fraser (1999) to determine whether doctors and nurses rate patients similarly using the Sedation-Agitation Scale (SAS) in a natural Intensive Care Units (ICU) setting. The author notes that it is essential to establish whether these different professionals provide consistent scores and have a mutual understanding of the SAS and its constituent levels. This will help ensure that clinical decisions relating to sedation-needs can be made appropriately and consistently. This quasi-experimental reliability study was set in a 12-bed tertiary general ICU in New Zealand. The SAS had recently been introduced into this unit and a convenience sample of 42 nursing and medical staff performed paired ratings on 69 randomly selected adult ICU patients over an eight week time frame. The mean patient age was 58 years, and 79% of patients were on continuous infusions of Propofol. Intubated patients made up 91% of the sample. 74% of patients were given the same SAS score by the doctor-nurse pair. The weighted kappa score for inter-rater agreement was 0.82 indicating very good agreement. Of the 26% of scores where there was a difference, the two readings were only one score apart. Most of the difference occurred around SAS scores of 1-2 and 3-4. Further analysis found no staff or patient variables to be statistically significant in impacting on the ratings. The SAS was found to be a reliable sedation-scoring tool in a general ICU when used by nurses and doctors of varying experience. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1203 |
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| Author |
Jarvis, B.M.; Mortimer, E.C. |
| Title |
Relevance of physical nursing assessment as seen by nurses and patients in the New Zealand setting |
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1983 |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Otago Hospital Board, Dunedin |
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A study to identify the relevance of the Nursing assessment phase of the Nursing process to Nurses and Patients in the New Zealand setting |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 91 |
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91 |
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| Author |
Hylton, J.A. |
| Title |
Relearning how to learn: Enrolled nurse transition to degree at a New Zealand rural satellite campus |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2005 |
Publication |
Nurse Education Today |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
25 |
Issue |
7 |
Pages |
519-526 |
| Keywords |
Registered nurses; Enrolled nurses; Education; Maori; Scope of practice; Careers in nursing; Rural nursing |
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This paper reports a study that examined the factors that assisted or hindered the transition of a group of enrolled nurses to registration/degree programmes, via a flexible course developed by a North Island tertiary institution. The study follows ten enrolled nurses, primarily Maori and working in rural settings, as they continued to work while studying at a small satellite campus. The study was exploratory and descriptive, and utilised focus group interviews. Two major categories emerged from comparative analysis of the data. One category entitled 'relearning how to learn', demonstrated the cognitive and behavioural adaptations made and is the focus of this paper. The other category 'barriers and catapults', demonstrated the physical and environmental factors that influenced the students' transition but is outside the scope of this paper. Recent changes in New Zealand nursing education have witnessed the clarification of scopes of nursing practice and the controversial development of a new Certificate in Health Science (Nurse Assistant). Currently enrolled nurses are again facing threats to employment and it is envisaged that many will be seeking to undertake transition to registered nurse in the near future. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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842 |
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| Author |
Day, W. |
| Title |
Relaxation: A nursing therapy to help relieve cardiac chest pain |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2000 |
Publication |
Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing |
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18 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
40-44 |
| Keywords |
Alternative therapies; Nursing; Patient satisfaction; Cardiovascular diseases |
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This article discusses ways in which relaxation, when used as an adjunct to medical therapies, can be a useful nursing management tool for effectively relieving cardiac pain. The available literature suggests that although nurses place a lot of importance on cardiac patients being pain free, it is apparent this is often not achieved. Research and documented case studies suggest that relaxation can play an important role in the treatment and prevention of this distressing symptom. The author advocates for nurses to challenge nursing practice and help patients deal effectively with chest pain in a way that meets each individual's needs. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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841 |
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| Author |
Te Huia, Maria; Mercer, Christine |
| Title |
Relationships and implications for complementary and alternative medicine in Aotearoa New Zealand: a discussion paper |
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Journal Article |
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2019 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand |
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35 |
Issue |
3 |
Pages |
25-32 |
| Keywords |
Complementary and alternative medicine; Rongoa Maori |
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Considers the relationship between nursing and complementary and alternative medicine(CAM), and how this could be incorporated into health care, citing its use internationally. Highlights areas of development and future research for CAM in nursing in NZ. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1671 |
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| Author |
Tritschler, E.; Yarwood, J. |
| Title |
Relating to families through their seasons of life: An indigenous practice model |
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Journal Article |
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2007 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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13 |
Issue |
5 |
Pages |
18-3 |
| Keywords |
Parents and caregivers; Nursing models; Nurse-family relations; Communication |
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In this article the authors introduce an alternative way that nurses can be with families, using a relational process that can enhance nurses' responses when working with those transitioning to parenthood. Seasons of Life, a framework adapted from the Maori health model He Korowai Oranga, emerged from practice to offer a compassionate and encouraging stance, while at the same time respecting each family's realities and wishes. The model allows the exploration of the transition to parenthood within a wellness model, and takes a strengths-based approach to emotional distress. This approach provides a sense of “normality”, rather than of pathology, for the emotions experienced by new parents. The specific issues men may face are discussed, where despite recent culture change that allows men a more nurturing parental role, there is still no clear understanding of how men articulate their sense of pleasure or distress at this time. Practitioners are encouraged to examine their own assumptions, values and beliefs, and utilise tools such as reflective listening, respect, insight and understanding. The most significant aspect of relationship between nurse and parents is not the outcome, but how nurses engage with families. Examples from practice will demonstrate some of the differing ways this relational process framework has been effective. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1007 |
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991 |
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| Author |
McDonald, S. |
| Title |
Registered nurses' perceptions of their role in acute inpatient care in New Zealand: A qualitative descriptive study |
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2004 |
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University of Auckland |
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| Keywords |
Mental health; Psychiatric Nursing |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 620 |
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606 |
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| Author |
Hollins, Joanne |
| Title |
Registered nurses' perceptions and experiences of nursing adolescents in an adult mental health unit. |
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Book Whole |
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2014 |
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111 p. |
| Keywords |
Registered nurses; Adolescents; Mental health units |
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Conducts a qualitative study to explore Registered Nurses' (RN) attitudes towards caring for adolescents in adult mental health (MH) in-patient services. Uncovers the reasons adolescents access such services and considers the training and knowledge RNs have in relation to the assessment and management of adolescents with MH problems. Identifies areas that may be improved or developed. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1572 |
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Vuorinen, Minna |
| Title |
Registered nurses' experiences with, and feelings and attitudes towards, interRAI-LTCF in New Zealand in 2017 |
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Book Whole |
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2017 |
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157 p. |
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InterRAI-LTCF; Registered Nurses; Aged residential care; Surveys |
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Conducts 12 interviews with Registered Nurses (RN) 18 months after the International Resident Assessment Instrument for Long-Term Care Facilities (interRAI-LTCF) became mandatory in NZ. Bases the interviews on a United Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) model. Analyses the benefits and drawbacks of InterRAI-LTCF according to RN experience, and what they feel would improve the system. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1815 |
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Washbourne, G A |
| Title |
Registered Nurses' Experiences of How in Situ Simulation Contributes to Ongoing Clinical Skill Development: A Qualitative Descriptive Study |
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Book Whole |
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2017 |
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56 p. |
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Simulation; Nursing education; Post-graduate education; Emergency departments (ED) |
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Recruits Emergency Department (ED) nurses to participate in three semi-structured interviews. Conducts thematic analysis of interview transcripts to identify the effects on clinical skills, and what facilitated participants' learning. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1560 |
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| Author |
Hughes, Margaret E.; Rose, Gayle M.; Trip, Henrietta |
| Title |
Registered nurses' experiences and perceptions of practising with a disability |
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Journal Article |
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2021 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki Nursing Research |
Abbreviated Journal |
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12 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
7-15 |
| Keywords |
Impairment; Disability; Disclosure |
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Explores and describes the experiences of RNs who have a disability or impairment, in their interactions with colleagues and managers in clinical practice. Discovers strategies used by them to ensure safe practice. Conducts 60-90-minute interviews with 10 RNs who identified as living with a disability or impairment. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1713 |
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